Trivia for
A Wedding (1978) More at IMDbPro »

• Mia Farrow has only one line in the whole movie.
  
  
• John Malkovich, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney, Alan Wilder, George Wendt, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Houston and Hedda Lubin were extras.
  
  
• The house featured in the film is the current home of singer Richard Marx and his wife, actress Cynthia Rhodes.
  
  
• There are 48 featured characters in the movie.
  
  
• Robert Altman admits that the whole production of the film came as a joke. A reporter had asked him what he planned to do next and he jokingly said that he was going to film someone's wedding, seeing as that was becoming a more common thing to do at the time. As he reflected on it, he decided it was actually quite a good idea, as he had never been to a wedding where something didn't go wrong.
  
  
• All the co-writers - John Considine, Allan F. Nichols and Patricia Resnick - all have small roles in the film.
  
  
• Sissy Spacek was offered the role of Buffy Brenner. She couldn't appear in the film due to a scheduling conflict, so the role went to Mia Farrow.
  
  
• Virginia Vestoff's final movie.
  
  
• Instead of using a typical boom mike to pick up dialogue, director Altman required all the actors wear portable microphones to assist in creating overlapping dialogue. He used this technique several times since first developing it for this film.
  
  

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